Valve announces Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is planned for release on August 21st for Windows, OS X, PlayStation Network, and Xbox LIVE Arcade at the same price of $15.00 across the board:

Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO) is targeted for release on August 21, 2012.

To be available via the Playstation Network, Xbox Live Arcade, and Steam (for PC and Mac), CS: GO will expand upon the team-based action gameplay pioneered when Counter-Strike was launched almost 13 years ago (CS beta 1, August 1999).

In terms of leaps I'd say it's roughly equal to the change from 1.6 to Source.

CSS was nothing but a graphical update to 1.6. That's why it was met by a resounding "meh" from people like me who had already played thousands of hours of CS and were looking for something actually new.

So perhaps CSGO will end up being the *third* time we get another CS rehash instead of a proper follow up. de_dust just won't fucking die.